While it may sound risky, it’s safe to use Apple’s higher-powered USB-C chargers, as your iPhone or iPad is what determines the power it receives, not the charger. The good news is that modern iPhones and iPads work with all of the MacBook USB-C chargers up to the 96W model (note that Apple doesn’t recommend using its 140W USB-C charger with iPhone and iPad). Third-party options cost less, but what about using something you already have? But picking up a new USB-C to Lightning cable and 20W charging block from Apple costs $40. But what about using a higher-powered USB-C charger from your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? Follow along for which iPhones and iPads you can fast charge with Apple’s MacBook chargers or similar third-party chargers.įast charging offers around 50% battery in 30 minutes. No included dongles or other cords, forcing iPhone users who may want to connect to MacBooks for energy or file management purposes to jump through a couple of hoops.Recommendations to fast charge iPhone or iPad often include picking up the 20W power adapter from Apple or similar from a third party. What’s especially annoying is the $1,800 and up 13-inch Touch Bar MacBook Pro and its big brother, starting at a whopping $2,400, both come with an impressive grand total of four USB Type-C-based Thunderbolt 3 ports, yet they can only accommodate a single 2 m USB-C charge cable and 87W USB-C power adapter in their extravagant retail boxes. Of course, while that means you shouldn’t throw out your “obsolete” wired headphones just yet, it also leaves you with no direct option to hook up the Lightning Earpods shipping standard in the iPhone 7 box to the fancy $1,500 and up fourth-gen professional macOS laptops.īut that’s still nothing compared to the inconvenience of separately purchasing either a $19 USB-C to USB adapter or $25 and up USB-C to Lightning cable to “easily” sync the iPhone 7 (or any generation of the iOS handheld, for that matter) with the Thunderbolt-supporting new 13 or 15-inch MacBook Pro. Are you even surprised? Were you expecting anything else after the new iPhone’s headphone jack-removing mess? At least be thankful those sizzling hot 2016 Touch Bar-sporting MacBook Pros, alongside the simpler, cheaper 13-inch version, all “cowardly” retain their traditional 3.5mm audio connectors.
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